Sira is an expert witness for one of the four new plaintiffs who are denouncing torture during the dictatorship.

With these, there are now five lawsuits filed by victims of repression during the dictatorship, following the approval of the new Democratic Memory Law. The State Coordinator for Support of the Argentine Lawsuit (CEAQUA) filed yesterday, February 21,...

Sira's expert testimony was key in the ruling that compensated a couple imprisoned for "jihadism," despite their innocence.

The man spent up to three years in pretrial detention, while his partner spent just under a year. In 2019, the Supreme Court acquitted them after a retrial. For almost four years, the Center for Attention to...

Sira is an expert witness for the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities that are suing Nicaragua before the Inter-American Court.

The Rama and Kriol peoples, the Monkey Point Community, and the Black Creole Indigenous Community of Bluefields accuse Nicaragua of violating their rights by granting the concession for the mega-project "Grand Interoceanic Canal," which crosses their lands...

Violence in transit worsens as migrants approach Europe

The Community Action Group (GAC) and the Sira Center presented some of the conclusions of their new report, “Labyrinths of Torture: Violence and Impacts on Migration Transit from Africa to Spain.” They were accompanied by Isidore Collins, advisor...

Pau Pérez stresses before the UN that the permanent suffering caused to families by enforced disappearance is torture

The clinical director of the Sir[a] Center presented to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances the special issue of the Torture Journal, focusing on the consideration of enforced disappearance as torture...

Geum Dodou on the Melilla tragedy: “The survivors are cut off».»

In a discussion with Teo Bondyale, secretary of the Federation of African Associations in the Canary Islands, Marisa Amaro of Geum Dodou denounced the treatment and uncertainty to which people sheltered at Frontera are subjected...

Reception conditions in Southern Border exacerbate suffering

“The Border Limbo,” a report prepared by the GAC and the Sir[a] Center, concludes that the reception conditions in the Canary Islands and Melilla threaten the psychological well-being of migrants arriving there….

A protocol for suspected cases of torture in Brazil

In 2018, the National Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture (MNPCT), together with various local and international organizations, initiated a process to demand that Brazilian authorities fulfill their obligation to...

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